Geranki flew to targets in Kharkov. Tonight Kharkov is the target. It appears that Russia is following their new strategy where they focus heavily on one location.
The War in the Ukraine
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An episode of a battle at a stronghold of the Ukrainian army located in a forest belt. The video was filmed in the Rubtsovsk direction, this is in the Donbass. The video shows the assault on the Ukrainian stronghold by the Russian assault detachment of the 16th separate special forces brigade, the "West" group of troops. It was not possible to establish which Ukrainian servicemen participated in the battle. As reported, there were 5 Ukrainian servicemen at the stronghold, as a result of the battle, two of them surrendered.
Dnipropetrovsk burning from Russian strikes.
Russian 177th Marines Regiment driving deep into Guevo.
Ukrainian Akasya SPG taken out by drones in the Krasnolimansk direction.
Russians raise flag over the Sudja border station in Gogolevka. If you remember last August, the Ukrainians began their attack on the Kursk region by storming this station.
Kharkhiv under Geran attack.
British Challenger repair and recovery vehicle, and M992 field ammunition supply vehicle captured in the Kursk region.
The way this M113 explodes when a drone dropped a bomb points to the vehicle ferrying ammunition to the front lines.
T-72M1 gets taken out by Russian drones north of Stepovoe in the Zaporozhye region.
Russian breakthrough into Kayerynivka, towards Liman.
Russians breakthrough into Vesyoloye at the Velikaya Novoselka sector.
Demidovka under fire. Russians on a clearing operation while Ukrainians are sending reinforcements. Russian artillery and drones are active.
FABs arrive on Ukrainian positions in Myropillia.
Ukrainian fortifications under fire by a Russian tank of the Grom Battalion. The tank emptied it's rounds right into the dugouts.
Ukrainian UAV crews and control points gets targeted by an Orlan-30 for Krasnopol strikes. Pokrovsk direction.
Two Ukrainian UAV control points in the Seversk area gets hit by artillery from Group South of forces.
D-30 howitzer of the Ussuri paratroopers gets busy in a night battle.
TOS working on Ukrainian positions. The way this unit is firing, it's a TOS-2.
Artillery is still the God of War, says this D-30 crewman. An artillery shell regardless of weather and conditions (referring to EW) will always reach its target.
Faster and more rapidly to boot.
Double tap Iskander strike at a forest in the Sumy region where Ukrainian forces were gathering.
Russian 177th Marines Regiment driving deep into Guevo.
Ukrainian Akasya SPG taken out by drones in the Krasnolimansk direction.
Russians raise flag over the Sudja border station in Gogolevka. If you remember last August, the Ukrainians began their attack on the Kursk region by storming this station.
Kharkhiv under Geran attack.
British Challenger repair and recovery vehicle, and M992 field ammunition supply vehicle captured in the Kursk region.
The way this M113 explodes when a drone dropped a bomb points to the vehicle ferrying ammunition to the front lines.
T-72M1 gets taken out by Russian drones north of Stepovoe in the Zaporozhye region.
Russian breakthrough into Kayerynivka, towards Liman.
Russians breakthrough into Vesyoloye at the Velikaya Novoselka sector.
Demidovka under fire. Russians on a clearing operation while Ukrainians are sending reinforcements. Russian artillery and drones are active.
FABs arrive on Ukrainian positions in Myropillia.
Ukrainian fortifications under fire by a Russian tank of the Grom Battalion. The tank emptied it's rounds right into the dugouts.
Ukrainian UAV crews and control points gets targeted by an Orlan-30 for Krasnopol strikes. Pokrovsk direction.
Two Ukrainian UAV control points in the Seversk area gets hit by artillery from Group South of forces.
D-30 howitzer of the Ussuri paratroopers gets busy in a night battle.
TOS working on Ukrainian positions. The way this unit is firing, it's a TOS-2.
Artillery is still the God of War, says this D-30 crewman. An artillery shell regardless of weather and conditions (referring to EW) will always reach its target.
Faster and more rapidly to boot.
Double tap Iskander strike at a forest in the Sumy region where Ukrainian forces were gathering.
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Russian paratroopers hoisting flags at the Sudzha border checkpoint station. Video footage.
Airstrike using NARS takes out a AFU field warehouse (code for ammo depot).
Gerans visited Zaporozhye city.
Geran strikes at Poltava and resulting power outage. Looks like truce is off for now.
Destroyed Ukrainian tank in Goncharovka.
Putin announces the transformation of Marine brigades into divisions. They will start with the 155th. No announcement for the second or third, though the 40th sounds like a good candidate followed by the 810rd.
First indisputable evidence that the Russians are successfully using a kinetic interceptor against ATACMS.
ZALA promotion video of the Z-16 UAV being used successfully by the Russian armed forces. Z-16s are in constant contact with the VKS finding targets and telling where to hit with FABs.
Molinya drones striking Ukrainian held shelters at the right bank of Kherson.
German bridelayer which never got to be used. Now under Russian hands. Kursk region.
Knocked out Czech VT-72B Brem,
MSTA-S and Hyacinth-S of the 73rd Artillery Brigade working on Ukrainian fortifications in the Serebryansky or Silver Forest in the Krasnolimansk direction.
Vikhr strike on a Ukrainian AFV from a Mi-28MN in the Sumy border area.
Destroyed M1117 in the Kursk region.
Destroyed Stryker in the Kursk region.
Maxxpro got disabled by drone dropped mines, then finished off by FPV.
Baba Yaga shot down by sniper fire. Group North of forces.
Ukrainian mortar unit shelling Russian territory gets struck by a shell. Comment says struck by FPV drones but it does not look like it.
Don't you miss seeing ATGMs? Haven't seen land fired ATGMs for a while not counting helicopter and UAV fired ATGMs. Seeing a ship sunk by ATGMs is also a first. A Ukrainian ship gets hit by Kornet ATGMs fired by marines of Group Dniepr.
Up to 30 personnel may have been killed in a FAB with UMPK strike on a Ukrainian PVD in the Sumy region.
Airstrike using NARS takes out a AFU field warehouse (code for ammo depot).
Gerans visited Zaporozhye city.
Geran strikes at Poltava and resulting power outage. Looks like truce is off for now.
Destroyed Ukrainian tank in Goncharovka.
Putin announces the transformation of Marine brigades into divisions. They will start with the 155th. No announcement for the second or third, though the 40th sounds like a good candidate followed by the 810rd.
First indisputable evidence that the Russians are successfully using a kinetic interceptor against ATACMS.
ZALA promotion video of the Z-16 UAV being used successfully by the Russian armed forces. Z-16s are in constant contact with the VKS finding targets and telling where to hit with FABs.
Molinya drones striking Ukrainian held shelters at the right bank of Kherson.
German bridelayer which never got to be used. Now under Russian hands. Kursk region.
Knocked out Czech VT-72B Brem,
MSTA-S and Hyacinth-S of the 73rd Artillery Brigade working on Ukrainian fortifications in the Serebryansky or Silver Forest in the Krasnolimansk direction.
Vikhr strike on a Ukrainian AFV from a Mi-28MN in the Sumy border area.
Destroyed M1117 in the Kursk region.
Destroyed Stryker in the Kursk region.
Maxxpro got disabled by drone dropped mines, then finished off by FPV.
Baba Yaga shot down by sniper fire. Group North of forces.
Ukrainian mortar unit shelling Russian territory gets struck by a shell. Comment says struck by FPV drones but it does not look like it.
Don't you miss seeing ATGMs? Haven't seen land fired ATGMs for a while not counting helicopter and UAV fired ATGMs. Seeing a ship sunk by ATGMs is also a first. A Ukrainian ship gets hit by Kornet ATGMs fired by marines of Group Dniepr.
Up to 30 personnel may have been killed in a FAB with UMPK strike on a Ukrainian PVD in the Sumy region.
A unique incident occurred during the fighting in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine. Two Russian BTR-82A were moving towards the village of Malye Shcherbaki, and a Ukrainian BTR M113 was driving towards them. For an unknown reason, the Ukrainian BTR M113 did not engage in combat and, having pulled off the road, let the Russian BTR-82A pass. The Russian BTR-82A did not stop and continued to carry out their combat mission. In the video, you can also see the smoke screen being laid using the Russian BTR-82A, episodes of the battle of the 19th motorized rifle division of Russia, and the attack of the FPV drone "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" on a Ukrainian T-72 tank in the area of the village of Novopavlovka in the Orekhov direction. What happened next with the Ukrainian BTR M113 is not clear from the video.
Probably cheaper and safer to use drones. Ambushing an infantry column with the good ammunition's need more preparation and logistic too while changing warhead on a drone more than 10km away cover a wider area in a comfort of a basement or house far from contact line.
Massive Geran raid in Odessa.
Russia and Ukraine exchange bodies --- 43 to 909. Ratio keeps getting worst and worst. Previous exchanges.
"Ukraine received the bodies of 909 dead soldiers, the Ukrainian coordination headquarters for prisoners of war confirms the exchange.
They were eliminated by Russian fighters in the Kurakhovsky, Pokrovsky, Artemovsky, Ugledarsky, Zaporozhye directions and in the LPR. Some were returned from morgues in Russia.
On February 14, the bodies of 45 Russian fighters were exchanged for 757 Ukrainians.
January 24 — 42 to 503.
December 20 — 42 to 508.
November 29 — 48 to 502;
November 8 — 37 to 563."
Russians took Krasnoye Pervoye, according to the MoD. Another new bridgehead across the Oskol River.
MoD confirms Russian capture of Gogolevka in the Kursk border region.
Guevo appears to have been taken by the 22nd MR Regiment in the Kursk region.
Ukraine hit the Sudja gas measuring station with HIMARS.
Russians had some serious breakthroughs in the Liman area.
Russians break into the Volnoye Polya settlement in the Velikaya Novoselka front.
2S19M2 of the 1st Tank Army gets busy on Ukrainian UAV control points.
Orlan-30 guided a Krasnopol shell into a Ukrainian artillery system. Group Center of forces.
Artillery precise shelling on Ukrainian basements and shelters. Group Center. Much of the 'fighting' seems to be about dugout destruction.
A house with Ukrainian troops hiding in it gets hit by a Forpost-R UAV. Popovka, Belgorod region.
M109A6 Paladin of the AFU 47th found knocked out in the Kursk region.
Two M113s stuck inside a FAB created crater. How or why they got in I don't know.
A Typhoon VDV with a BM-30D combat module spotted in the front.
Another Bogdana SPG gets hit by a Lancet in Fedorivka.
Ukrainian radar gets hit by a Lancet in Pokrovske in the Sumy region.
Ka-52M "demines" a minefield by hitting the area with NARS, detonating the minefield and a field ammo depot.
X-38ML and X-39 LMUR in action. A UAV lases the target, this time a dam, which guides the X-38ML missile into it. The whole thing works exactly like a Krasnopol, but instead of an artillery shell with fins, it's an air to ground missile launched from a Su-34/35 with a warhead equal to a FAB-250. No one uses lasing pods anymore.
The LMUR takes out pontoon bridges and one plants itself straight into a house occupied by the AFU.
In the last scene, the UAV lases one target after another against strongholds in a large building. The last scene however, looks more Krasnopols to me. I would think a single X-38ML would have leveled the entire building with one shot.
I always wonder why the Russians didn't apply the Malakhit guidance systems, the system used on Krasnopols and X-38ML, on rockets that can be fired from a Tornado-S or Uragan, or even a Grad.
Wheeled Pantsyr takes out a Ukrainian UAV.
Russians upgrade Gerans by doubling the number of satellite channels and using new antennas said to be of Chinese design. These upgrades make the drones more difficult to jam.
Russian Strela-10 hits a Ukrainian UAV.
ZALA showcases the Z-16 UAV in a compilation video where they spot and monitor targets (called 'providing objective control') for a multitude of FAB strikes.
Russia and Ukraine exchange bodies --- 43 to 909. Ratio keeps getting worst and worst. Previous exchanges.
"Ukraine received the bodies of 909 dead soldiers, the Ukrainian coordination headquarters for prisoners of war confirms the exchange.
They were eliminated by Russian fighters in the Kurakhovsky, Pokrovsky, Artemovsky, Ugledarsky, Zaporozhye directions and in the LPR. Some were returned from morgues in Russia.
On February 14, the bodies of 45 Russian fighters were exchanged for 757 Ukrainians.
January 24 — 42 to 503.
December 20 — 42 to 508.
November 29 — 48 to 502;
November 8 — 37 to 563."
Russians took Krasnoye Pervoye, according to the MoD. Another new bridgehead across the Oskol River.
MoD confirms Russian capture of Gogolevka in the Kursk border region.
Guevo appears to have been taken by the 22nd MR Regiment in the Kursk region.
Ukraine hit the Sudja gas measuring station with HIMARS.
Russians had some serious breakthroughs in the Liman area.
Russians break into the Volnoye Polya settlement in the Velikaya Novoselka front.
2S19M2 of the 1st Tank Army gets busy on Ukrainian UAV control points.
Orlan-30 guided a Krasnopol shell into a Ukrainian artillery system. Group Center of forces.
Artillery precise shelling on Ukrainian basements and shelters. Group Center. Much of the 'fighting' seems to be about dugout destruction.
A house with Ukrainian troops hiding in it gets hit by a Forpost-R UAV. Popovka, Belgorod region.
M109A6 Paladin of the AFU 47th found knocked out in the Kursk region.
Two M113s stuck inside a FAB created crater. How or why they got in I don't know.
A Typhoon VDV with a BM-30D combat module spotted in the front.
Another Bogdana SPG gets hit by a Lancet in Fedorivka.
Ukrainian radar gets hit by a Lancet in Pokrovske in the Sumy region.
Ka-52M "demines" a minefield by hitting the area with NARS, detonating the minefield and a field ammo depot.
X-38ML and X-39 LMUR in action. A UAV lases the target, this time a dam, which guides the X-38ML missile into it. The whole thing works exactly like a Krasnopol, but instead of an artillery shell with fins, it's an air to ground missile launched from a Su-34/35 with a warhead equal to a FAB-250. No one uses lasing pods anymore.
The LMUR takes out pontoon bridges and one plants itself straight into a house occupied by the AFU.
In the last scene, the UAV lases one target after another against strongholds in a large building. The last scene however, looks more Krasnopols to me. I would think a single X-38ML would have leveled the entire building with one shot.
I always wonder why the Russians didn't apply the Malakhit guidance systems, the system used on Krasnopols and X-38ML, on rockets that can be fired from a Tornado-S or Uragan, or even a Grad.
Wheeled Pantsyr takes out a Ukrainian UAV.
Russians upgrade Gerans by doubling the number of satellite channels and using new antennas said to be of Chinese design. These upgrades make the drones more difficult to jam.
Russian Strela-10 hits a Ukrainian UAV.
ZALA showcases the Z-16 UAV in a compilation video where they spot and monitor targets (called 'providing objective control') for a multitude of FAB strikes.
More footage of Russian FPV drones controlled via fiber optic cable. In this case, the FPV drone was supposedly planning to attack a Ukrainian CRARRV engineering vehicle. Judging by the video, the Ukrainian CRARRV had already been damaged. The video was filmed near the village of Zaoleshenka in the Kursk region of Russia. The CRARRV is a very rare vehicle. In 2023, the UK transferred 2 units to Ukraine. It is designed to evacuate Challenger 2 tanks. The CRARRV recovery vehicle was developed by Vickers Defence in 1985, based on the Challenger 1 tank hull. The ARV is equipped with two winches, a hydraulic crane, and a 7.62 machine gun. The ARV crew is up to five people.
An episode of the work of the Russian mobile medical group evacuating the wounded from the combat zone in Ukraine. The video was filmed near the contact line. The location of the shooting is not reported. The evacuation group uses an ATV and a homemade trailer. The group's work is quite dangerous, as there is a high risk of attack by Ukrainian drones. Drones have also affected the time it takes to evacuate the wounded for surgical care. It has increased threefold - to 14.5 hours.
The medical group takes the wounded, if necessary, assistance is provided directly along the way. The wounded can be encouraged and even force can be used to bring soldiers to their senses. According to doctors as of 2025, during active fighting in Ukraine, the absolute majority of wounds, 94.4% - are shrapnel and explosive. This data includes 75% of wounds from UAV attacks, 20% from artillery shelling and only 4% of wounds from small arms. These data can be applied to Ukrainian injury statistics, with the adjustment that the Russian army uses more bombs, missiles and artillery.
The medical group takes the wounded, if necessary, assistance is provided directly along the way. The wounded can be encouraged and even force can be used to bring soldiers to their senses. According to doctors as of 2025, during active fighting in Ukraine, the absolute majority of wounds, 94.4% - are shrapnel and explosive. This data includes 75% of wounds from UAV attacks, 20% from artillery shelling and only 4% of wounds from small arms. These data can be applied to Ukrainian injury statistics, with the adjustment that the Russian army uses more bombs, missiles and artillery.